For great coffee, try Three Bears. Owner Jeff Scheafnocker sells it out of a bright blue wagon at the Market Square Farmer’s Market, at his Three Bears Coffee Company store …
A Tempest Over Testing
“That was a waste of time,” my friend’s grandson exclaimed after this year’s TNReady test nose-dived into ignominy. He wasn’t talking about the test; he was talking about his entire …
Our General Assembly Tackles Problems That Don’t Exist—and Creates New Ones in the Process
A magistrate is peacefully overseeing the last outpost of the Empire when a state of emergency is declared. Rumors spread: the Barbarians are preparing an attack. The magistrate has seen no …
At Knox County Schools, Where’s the Education in Sex Ed?
You might have a problem if your sex ed teacher tells rape jokes. Or if he warns girls against catching “ho-itis.” You might have a problem if students leave class …
We the People Are “Free” From Insure Tennessee—and Good Governance
Once, while serving on the board of my neighborhood pool club, I listened as fellow members discussed facility improvements that absolutely needed to be done and the subsequent dues increase …